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Human females engage in courtship display to lesser extent in shape of presenting their [[beauty|curves]], [[nubility]], [[neoteny]] enhanced by [[fakeup]] and related means of arousing attention.
Human females engage in courtship display to lesser extent in shape of presenting their [[beauty|curves]], [[nubility]], [[neoteny]] enhanced by [[fakeup]] and related means of arousing attention.


Courtship can be seen as a kind of [[intrasexual competition]] as it involves [[dominance hierarchy|outcompeting]] other men interested in the same woman. But rather than competing directly e.g. by physical violence and intimidation,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill#Among_male_university_students.2C_only_cues_of_physical_dominance_over_other_men_predicted_their_mating_success</ref> gossip<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324460432_Competitive_reputation_manipulation_Women_strategically_transmit_social_information_about_romantic_rivals</ref> or bullying,<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283732484_Adolescent_Bullying_Dating_and_Mating_Testing_an_Evolutionary_Hypothesis Adolescent Bullying, Dating, and Mating: Testing an Evolutionary Hypothesis], Researchgate</ref> it consists in ''impressing'' the opposite sex, by eliciting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus super stimuli] in their brains.
Courtship can be seen as a kind of [[intrasexual competition]] as it involves [[dominance hierarchy|outcompeting]] other men interested in the same female in terms of impressing her.


== Human courtship ==
== Human courtship ==
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